Building a secure research environment

Supporting collaboration and innovation while protecting and managing sensitive research data in an increasingly important cybersecurity and risk landscape is challenging for universities and researchers. 

Providing tools and environments that keep data safe and allow secure access for approved researchers to work collaboratively and analyse sensitive data, augmented with layers of governance and auditing, is one response to these challenges.

This presentation will discuss our activities to improve sensitive research data management practices and our work to date on building our Secure Research Environment (SRE). We will share our experiences building a SRE and outline and explore the enablers and the hurdles we have encountered.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Martin Feller Since moving to New Zealand Martin Feller has worked at the Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland in various roles. He is currently leading the Platform and Services Team, which is looking after the operations of the Nectar OpenStack platform, other backend services, automation and reporting.

Yvette Wharton works at the Centre for eResearch, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland. She is the Technical Business Lead for the Research Data Management Programme, working on the Secure Research Environment and machine-actionable Data Management Planning initiatives. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6689-8840

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